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Report on the 3 rd Annual School of Information Theory held at USC in August

Report on the 3 rd & 4 th Annual Schools of Information Theory Aylin Yener & Gerhard Kramer & Sriram Vishwanath Presented at the BoG meeting Sep 28, 2010, UIUC by Giuseppe Caire. 1. Report on the 3 rd Annual School of Information Theory held at USC in August. 3. Program Overview.

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Report on the 3 rd Annual School of Information Theory held at USC in August

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  1. Report on the 3rd & 4th Annual Schools of Information TheoryAylin Yener & Gerhard Kramer& Sriram VishwanathPresented at the BoG meetingSep 28, 2010, UIUCby Giuseppe Caire 1

  2. Report on the 3rd Annual School of Information Theoryheld at USC in August

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  4. Program Overview Lecture materials will be available online at: www.itsoc.org/school

  5. Attendees 2010 IT School • Number of Applicants: 239 students • Confirmed: 178 (≈26% increase over 141 in 2009) • Housing: 132 (≈135 in 2009) • No Housing: 46 • Cancellations: 61 (≈26% is quite high vs. 2009) • Others: 6 instructors, 6 organizers,4 junior faculty, 7 guests • Total: ≈ 200 people

  6. Estimated Budget USC housing: $27k $50/person/night x 4 nights x 135 Food: 4 days, 220 attendees ≈ $36k Instructor/organizer travel = $8k Materials = $5k Incidentals = $1k Travel Grants: $10k Total: $87k 6

  7. Fundraising • Housing fee: $120/student x 132 students ≈$15.8k • ITSOC: $20k • ARL: $15k • NSF: $14k • USC Ming Hsieh Institute (1st grant!): $10k • Individual school contributions: • USC EE: $2.8k • Northwestern, Rice, Texas A&M: $2k • Notre Dame, Penn State, UT Austin: $1k • Princeton: $0.5k • Total: $87.1k 7

  8. Thank You • Next: some important THANK YOU’s to our many volunteers

  9. Local volunteers Thank You To Our USC Volunteers • Food, Hotel, Housing, Registration and Packages:Anita Fung, Gerrielyn Ramos • Students (from across the world!):Marjan Baghaie, Ozgun Bursalioglu, Prasanta Ghosh, Hassan Ghozlan, Joshua Gunn,Song-Nam Hong, Kung-Chuan Hsu,Hoon Huh, Dileep Kalathil, Jeong Gon Kim,Ching-Yi Lai, Chih-Ping Li, Angeliki Metallinou, Bill Ntranos, Krishnakumar Raman, Peyman Razaghi, Arash Saber Tehrani, Rahul Urgaonkar, Feng Wan, Bo Xiao, Daphney-Stavroula Zois

  10. Organizing Committee Thank You To Our Organizers • Matthieu Bloch:Web Site and Electronic Submissions • Michelle Effros and Tracey Ho:Program and Applications • Alex Dimakisand Mike Neely:T-Shirts, Local Organization • SriramVishwanath: Treasurer

  11. Instructors Thank YouTo Our Teachers • Jack Wolf: Can an Information Theorist by Happy in a Center for Information Storage? • Andrea Goldsmith: Seeking Shannon Capacity of Wireless Channels and Networks • Emmanuel Candès: InformationTheory of Data Matrices: Recoveryfrom Incomplete and Corrupted Entries • Alon Orlitsky: Probability Estimation over Large Alphabets • Sergio Verdú: Reading Shannon • Rüdiger Urbanke: Approaching Shannon

  12. Financial Support Thank You For Very Generous Contributions: • IEEE Information Theory Society • ARL/ARO • NSF • USC Ming Hsieh Institute

  13. Financial Support (Continued) Thank You To • USC Electrical Engineering • Northwestern University - Master of Sciencein Information Technology Program • Rice University - Center for Multimedia Communication • Texas A&M University – ECE Department • Penn State - Networking and SecurityResearch Center • The University of Texas at Austin – WirelessNetworking and Communications Group • University of Notre Dame - Anonymous • Princeton University • Roberto Padovani

  14. Web Site & Newsletter Web site: lectures & photos & videoshttp://www.itsoc.org/school A blog-like page with responses to Sergio Verdú’s homework assignment “What surprises me most in reading Shannon's paper is....”will be public soon Detailed IT School report toappear in Dec. 2010 newsletter 14

  15. Future Schools Enthusiasm about the School has spread! Volunteers for future schools: 2011: UT Austin (Sriram Vishwanath & Tie Liu) 2012: Cornell (Aaron Wagner & Salman Avestimehr) 2013: Banff (Christian Schlegel) 15 15

  16. Report on the 2011 School of Information Theory

  17. 2011 School of Information Theory • Venue: Austin TX, UT campus • When: Memorial Day weekend (May 28-31) • Why that weekend? • Weather in Austin is still good • For quarter system: • overlaps with just one working day(Tuesday, which will be a half day) • For most semester systems, it isthe summer break • Main issue with later dates: Austin’shot hot hot!

  18. Logistics • Confirmed Organizing Committee members • Co-chairs: Tie Liu and Sriram Vishwanath • Publicity: Matthieu Bloch • Posters: Bobak Nazer • Local Arrangements:Sujay Sanghavi • Further members (treasurer,t-shirts) being recruited

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